Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

Fancies and Fantasticks .461So love's the Resistance of all the GracesWhich flow from a thousand several faces.Chi. Hilas the Birds which chant in this GroveCould we but know the language they use,.They would instruct us better in love,And reprehend thy inconstant muse ;For love their breasts doth fill with such a fire,That what they do chuse, bounds their desire.Hil.Chloris this change the Birds do approve,Which the warm season hither does bring,Time from your self does further removeYou, then the Winter from the gay Spring ;She that like lightning shin'd whiles her face lasted,Looks like an Oak being old, which lightning hathblasted.To be ingraven under the Queens Picture.Such Helen was, and who can blame the BoyThat in so bright a flame consumed his Troy ?But had like vertue shin'd in that fair Greek,The amorous Shepherd had not dar'd to seekOr hope for pity, but with silent moanAnd better fate, had perished alone.How theViolets came blew.The Violets, as poets tell,With Venus wrangling wentWhether the Violets did excellOr she in sweetest scent ;